Details Aside, Warren Supporters Just Want Plans

Aria Neukam says she loves that Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has lots of plans. She knows the senator has an education plan, a Medicare for All plan, an environmental plan.

Ms. Neukam says she doesn’t know exactly what is in those documents, but that isn’t the point. She says she thinks President Trump’s governing style is ad hoc and unorthodox, and she prefers a leader who has spelled out what they are going to do and how to do it.

“In truth, when she says ‘I have a plan,’ I trust that there is some well-researched plan out there,” said Ms. Neukam, 68 years old, a Warren supporter who attended the Massachusetts Democrat’s recent town hall at the University of New Hampshire’s main campus in Durham, N.H.

“It’s just the idea that she’s thought all these things through. I think that just to have a plan is amazing,” Ms. Neukam said.

Interviews with roughly two dozen of Ms. Warren’s backers reveal a theme: Ms. Warren has earned support from some Democrats who aren’t immersed in the meat of her policy proposals but are instead drawn to the idea that she has a vision for governing in Washington.

Ms. Warren’s primary rivals have pounced on her plans as she has risen in Democratic polls. For months, Ms. Warren had declined to outline how she would pay for Medicare for All, which would eliminate private insurance and switch all Americans to a health system paid for by the government. “Your signature, senator, is to have a plan for everything except this,” South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg said during an October debate.

Post-17th Amendment ratification Sen. Warren’s so-called “plans” are probably nothing more than a campaign crutch, same mentality as Hillary’s cackle imo.

In other words, Warren’s so-called “plans” are probably best regarded as unconstitutional federal social spending bills, bills that Congress’s cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, bills that “President” Warren will rubber stamp to exploit low-information voters to keep career Democrats and RINOs in power.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Bleeding heart liberal politicians like Warren actually need to get out of the constitutionally limited power federal government and try to get themselves elected to a state government. If she manages to get elected to a state government, Warren will be able to use 10th Amendment-protected state powers to experiment with her socialistic utopian ideas as the Founding States had intended, at least to prove once again that such ideas don’t work.

Justice Brandeis had put it this way about unique state powers to serve the people.

"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” —Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.

(Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.)

Democratic Party + 17th Amendment = judicial tyranny

Remember in November 2020!

MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)

"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The 16th Amendment effectively repealed the involuntary servitude aspect of the 13th Amendment imo, evidenced by unconstitutional federal taxes." —me
- "Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
- "13th Amendment, Section 1:
  Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude [emphasis added], except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
- "16th Amendment:
  The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.” —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me

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